Improvement in pen-holders



lUNITED STATES xP lrltTlilN'I' QFFICE.

OLIVER A. PENNOYEB, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PEN-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 113,558, dated April11, 1871.

I, OLIVER A. PENNOYER, of Washington city, in the county of Washingtonand District of Columbia, have invented certain Improvements inPen-Holders, of which the following is a specification:

Pen-holders as ordinarily made receive and hold the pen between twofixed or immovable cylinders, and when it is necessary to remove aworn-out or useless pen from the holder the pen has to be taken hold ofwith the thumb and fin ger to draw it out of the holder, which isgenerally thickly covered over with partially-dried ink, and willbesmear the thumb and nger in the operation of discharging or drawing itfrom the holder.

The object of this invention is to so construct a pen-holderthat when apen that is held therein is worn out or becomes useless for writing, itcan be discharged from the holder without taking hold of the pen withthe thumb and nger, and thus save them from becoming blackened by thepartially-dried ink that has accumulated on the pen; and it consists inthe construction and arrangement of the parts that compose the holder,whereby the result is accomplished.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of the holder with a pen inposition. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same without the pen. Fig.3 is asectional view of Fig. 1, and Figs. 4 and 5 are modifications in theVconstruction of the same invention.

A is the handle of the pen-holder. B is a metal cylinder fast on thehandle of the holder, and has alongitudinal slot, a, on its upper or topside, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, and has an inwardly-proj ecting stop, c,on the opposite side from the slot a, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3. Thisstop c may be made by punching a piece of the cylinder B partially out,and have it project on the inner side of the cylinder; or it may besoldered on the cylinder, as may be thought best. C is a cylinder, lessin diameter and shorter than cylinder B, and is made to slide withinandwto hold the pen between it and the cylinder B, and has a slot, a',at its end, and running nearly half its length. This slot a is made insliding cylinder C, in order that it may be freely reciprocated withincylinder B, by having the stop c of cylinder B Within the slot a' ofcylinder C.

Cylinder C is placed within the outer or fast cylinder B, and has a holein the proper place to receive stud b, which is put through slot a ofcylinder B into and through cylinder C, when it is riveted fast thereto,as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, and when so constructed and put togethercompletes the holder; and by placing the thumb upon the stud b andpushing it toward the outer end of the holder, and until stud b strikesthe outer end of slot @,as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, when pen C is insertedbetween the two cylinders B and C, as in ordinary pen-holders, and untilthe upper or shank end of the pen strikes the stop c, when the pen is inposition for writing; and after being in the holder and used for writinguntil it is worthless, and requires to be discharged from the holder,the writer has only to place his thumb upon stud b and force it, withcylinder C, toward the handle of the holder, and when the outer end ofcylinder C passes the stop c the pen is no longer held between thecylinders, and it will instantly fall out of cylinder B, and be fullydischarged from the holder without being touched by the operator.

Cylinder C may be made larger in diameter than cylinder B, and slideover instead of inside of it, as seen in Fig. 4, and when so constructedthe stud b will be inverted in position from stud 11, as is plainly seenin said Fig. 4; or, instead of using stud b to reciprocate cylinder C,there may be a band, b", encircling cylinder B, as seen in Fig. 5, andriveted to cylinder C, the rivet sliding in slot a.

This construction of pen-holder is neat,

cheap, strong, and durable, and is not liable to get out of order.

I am aware that pen-holders have been made from which the pen could bedischarged without grasping the pen with the thumb and iinger, suchconstruction being seen in Patent No. 90,168, and dated May 18, 1869,which construction, as therein `shown and claimed, is not the sameinvention as herein described and claimed as my invention.

The inner and sliding cylinder of my holder is slotted at its outer end,and cut oft' on the l opposite side to be narrower, which makes itelastic or yielding where the shank of the pen is inserted, so that pensdiffering in size can be inserted and successfully held therein, and

the slot a' in the inner cylinder will impart to billet-ion with Jchesliding cylinder C, having the pen that elasticity always so desirablefor slot a therein, and stud b fast thereto and ease in Writing. slidingin slot a, in the manner and for the Having thus described my invention,what purpose described. I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-OLIVER A. PENN OYER. ent, is-' Witnesses:

The cylinder B, having a' single slot, a, and NEWTON GRAWF0RD,

` inwardly-projecting standing stud c, in com- GHARLES CHINN.

